A question for which there is no clear answer: Who’s the leader of the Republican Party?

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Sep 26, 2013 at 5:20 PM

If you ask Republicans who is the leader of their party these days, you’re going to get a wide a mix of answers, none of which comes even close to a consensus choice.

Or you’re going to get a shrug of puzzlement.

The reasons for this are many, including the indisputable fact that the GOP currently is rent by its own civil war. At almost every turn of late, you’ll hear or read of Republicans saying some pretty nasty things about one another. The far-rightists think the party establishment is dominated by RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). And the so-called ...

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Pat Cunningham

If you ask Republicans who is the leader of their party these days, you’re going to get a wide a mix of answers, none of which comes even close to a consensus choice.

Or you’re going to get a shrug of puzzlement.

The reasons for this are many, including the indisputable fact that the GOP currently is rent by its own civil war. At almost every turn of late, you’ll hear or read of Republicans saying some pretty nasty things about one another. The far-rightists think the party establishment is dominated by RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). And the so-called ...